August 31, 2004
Domestic bliss through mechanical marvels?
Never mind the humanoid Automated Domestic Assistants walking rich people's pets in the movie I, Robot, or the accordion-armed Robot B9 in TV classic Lost in Space warning of danger on lonely planets.
The real force driving the development of personal robots — and what will eventually create demand for them in the marketplace — is aging baby boomers.
That's the secret among robotics researchers and budding robot companies. As the horde of boomers become old, they increasingly will be unable to care for themselves or their homes. They'll face a social and medical system straining to help them. But they'll be comfortable with technology.
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August 30, 2004
Fuzzy Logic
The digital computing world is built on a structure of Boolean logic applied to binary values -- one or zero, yes or no, in or out. But this powerful structure is a gross oversimplification of the real world, where many shades of gray exist between black and white. In everyday life, we use quasimetric notions that are clearly related to numerical concepts or values but lack precision or demarcation.
What time is it? If I'm a server time-stamping thousands of files, digital certificates or transactions, I need very fine distinctions. But if I'm asking a co-worker what time it is, do I really care that it's 11:49:54 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time? Or do I just want to know if it's time for lunch yet?
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The brilliant minds at JPL
One of the most fascinating and successful research and engineering institutions in the United States is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It is managed by the California Institute of Technology for NASA. JPL grew from a nucleus of engineers at Caltech conducting research and development into rocket propulsion in the 1930s. JPL performed research for the U.S. Army during the 1940s and came under its jurisdiction at that time. In the wake of Sputnik, JPL was tasked with developing America’s first satellite. In only three months, JPL engineered, built and successfully launched Explorer I on January 31, 1958. When Congress created NASA to oversee America’s space efforts, JPL was one of NASA’s first acquisitions.
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August 29, 2004
Learning how to forget
After decades of studying how memory works, scientists are trying to figure out how we forget.
Their goal is to help people:
• Forget painful things they don't want to remember, from an embarrassing moment in high school or a stupid mistake at work on up to a rape or traumatic accident.
? Not forget things they do want to remember, such as where they left their keys or the name of the boss's spouse, all the way up to slowing the devastation of Alzheimer's disease.
Instead of just giving memory tests to people, neuroscientists are using recent technologies that observe the living brain at work, such as fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and PET (positron emission tomography).
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Software mimics insect swarms
scientists are using the collective intelligence found in insect swarms to develop the next generation of hi-tech military hardware.
Alex Ryan, a mathematician with the government's Defence Science and Technology Organisation, heads a team that is working on computer software recreating swarm behaviour for use on the battlefield.
The goal is to develop swarms of small, expendable unmanned vehicles that can carry out missions in ground, sea and aerial environments too dangerous for humans
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August 28, 2004
I, computer
Imagine playing your favourite shoot-em-up computer game. You've pushed your character through tough fights, taken hits, and you're about to take one last risk that might win you the level. You command your character to go through that final door, but it turns to you and says "No way - I'll get killed!"
Computers that answer back might seem more the realm of science fiction, but Dr Yusuf Pisan, Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, is working hard to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to computer game characters, with one eye on future applications which may soon become commonplace.
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August 27, 2004
25 Years!
It is my 25th b’day today! I planned few things to be finished by my 25th year. I planned to shift my page on my server by today. My philosophical mood about the man and machine was at its peak today. For the whole day I was just keep on thinking about this. My day started as usual, got up at 6:45 AM, while I was half asleep my roommates wished me. They came to know about this by a sms that was sent to me by one of my close friends in India in night. Anyway I took bath, had quick breakfast and left the home putting on my sun glasses and nokia head phone listening FM. The same bus same people to the office.
I knew about my office plan for today yesterday itself. I need to go to one of our customer’s place to checkout the problem they are facing with a machine. That customer is one of the biggest names in aviation industry and a part of united technologies group. Anyway after a quick meeting I went with another supervisor to the customer. Their production stopped because the machine was down. And bigger problem was that they had two similar machines and both were down simultaneously.
That was a big Deckel Maho grinding machine which was being modified by our company according to our customer’s requirement before I joined. The servo motor of fixture which rotates aerofoil was faulty and changing that motor was a big headache. The reason of motor getting shorted was the coolant that leaked into it because the connection cover was broken at the motor end and coolant was flushing near that broken region at full speed during grinding process. And one more problem was that the new motor we had was bigger than the one existing in the machine. Luckily we had that motor; else we had to wait for few days to order new motor.
Any way we dissembled the things and changed the motor. Tested that before assembling and once confirmed we fixed up the fixture to its position after locating the positions of three axes. It took us almost one working day. It wasn’t easy with the management over our head. Even it was not under warranty; they wanted their machine to run in any case even if we need to stay for whole night. But with the help of an experience supervisor I was able to win over that machine I didn’t know anything about.
In between I was receiving messages from my friends; I tried to reply back most of them. After finishing the work I took a cab and went back to office to collect my notebook and from there I went back to home.
There was no one at that time at home. And I wasn’t in any mood to have any type of celebration, I just booted up my notebook and started surfing the net and chatting with friends, and changed the aesthetics of my page.
After sometime one of my close flat mates (a senior from roorkee) came back and started cooking something. And came and asked “come and cut the cake”:) I cut the cake after 7 years. We just finished the whole cake and had some chat,back to surfing. And meanwhile the 27th August was over.
But for the whole day I had some different kind of feeling, as of having a birthday of a machine. A machine that never stops thinking!
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ME
"I think, I do, therefore I exist"
Philosophy
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Believing
Doing
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Design
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Knowledge
Origin
Evolution
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Learning
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In short:
A Thinking Machine
Born on 27th August 1979
Birth place Modinagar (India)
Shifted with family to Ghaziabad (India) at the age of 9 month
Youngest among 4 sibling (two brother and two sisters)
Started school at early age
Love subjects like mathematics, science, craft
Love craft, used to make models when ever find time, used to make toys with new ideas and mechanisms
Got admitted in a government school for class 9th to class 12th. Boys school only :-(
Then to University of Roorkee (Now IIT Roorkee)
Worked with a start up company
Got an offer from NUS, (without writing GRE and with the minimum score of TOEFL)
Great interest in Artificial Intelligence and Softcomputing Techniques like Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems
Building Machines
Designing Products
Developing a New Methodology for Product Design (write to me to know more about)
Writing Philosophies
And Building myself.
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What is it all about?
It is a Thinking Machine, which learns everyday, every hour, every minute and every single second. It is continuously building a knowledge base for itself and for other machines and humans of the future, a knowledge base of the technologies, which are going to rule the world in future. It is about to reach at the peak of time which will take the whole human race to the next world. When a human will start think who am I? A human or a machine. Who is human and who is machine? If I am human than who created me? Where have I come from? The time when this world will be full of Thinking Machines....
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